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About 60 graduates of the Global Business Journalism program joined students and faculty for the fourth annual GBJ alumni reunion on Jan. 8.

The reunion, held at Bloomberg News' Beijing bureau, was a celebration of the ninth class of students attending the prestigious international program at the Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communications.

John Liu, Bloomberg’s Managing Editor for China, welcomed the alumni and called the program beneficial both to Tsinghua and the respected global news agency, which has hired several GBJ graduates in recent years.

A deadly mix of poor health services and communication failures fueled the Ebola epidemic that claimed more than 11,200 lives in West Africa, according to an ICFJ panel of journalists and health researchers who witnessed the disease’s devastation first-hand. But the panel of experts noted that there are promising signs that the global community could be better prepared to handle the next outbreak.

The meeting marked the eighth anniversary of GBJ, a project of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) which has trained more than 230 business journalists to cover China’s markets and the global economy.

Three graduates and a summer intern from the GBJ program are currently working with Bloomberg, and met with the forme

Two groundbreaking women journalists, in Washington to accept a top international media award, have criticized the treatment of journalists in their countries and the limited space for expressing views at odds with the government.

Investigative reporter Priyanka Dubey of India and Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said these are tough times for journalists in the two countries despite their dramatically different political systems – with Cuba a restrictive communist island and India known as the world’s largest democr

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and its partner Code for Africa have launched a sweeping program to promote data-driven investigative reporting in Africa that engages audiences and gets the attention of policymakers on health and other development issues.

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who famously faced down presidential candidate Donald Trump over immigration, urged journalists not to back down when it comes to confronting those in power.

Ramos, widely considered the most influential Hispanic broadcaster in America, said he is a journalist rather than an activist as some have suggested. But he also said that journalists should take a stand on key issues such as human rights, discrimination and corruption.

American photojournalist Lynsey Addario, whose searing images have shown the human side of conflicts from Afghanistan to South Sudan, said journalists have lost the “shield of security” that once allowed them to enter danger zones. Now, they have to hide “under the radar” to do their jobs.

“We have entered a time when journalists are increasingly under attack, simply for carrying out our work,” said Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.

The International Center for Journalists condemns the arrest of Hossam Bahgat, an investigative journalist detained Sunday by Egyptian military intelligence for allegedly publishing false news that damages national interests.

Bahgat, 36, a reporter for the independent news site Mada Masr, has a reputation for serving as a government watchdog.